Sound Off, Feb. 4, 2013

The workforce participation rate has dropped by 8.5 million in the last 4 or 5 years.I don't have the specific year for this sample right now but it is easy to find, if I cared. You could spin this as not losing jobs, and most lefties would probably jump right in line with you. The fact is, of able bodied people in this country, 8.5 million fewer are in the workforce now, but the population is still rising.

Are these jobs still available, but no one wants them? No!

Are more people just content to live off the government now than go to work? Yes!

This statistic also explains why 157,000 jobs added, or Obama's claim of "4 million jobs added during his first term" is nothing to crow about, as the liberal media is doing. This figure does not keep pace with population growth. 7.9 % unemployment, an incorrect measure in itself that should be 11%, is almost twice as high as the % under GWB and the media ripped him apart for it. For Obama, 7.9% is the new normal. He should be proud.

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Congratulations go out to Mr. LaPierre for firmly opposing federal background checks, despite the false assertion that "most NRA members don't share his position." To the contrary, most NRA members now oppose federal background checks. Thanks to the fantastic work of Gun Owners of America and the National Association of Gun Rights, Americans are waking up to the dangers of a federal background database, essential a default gun registry that will only open the door to gun confiscation.

Increasing grassroots pressure has been put on NRA leadership since this issue has come to the forefront. I'm happy to hear they're listening. Don't yield an inch to tyranny.

The big lie keeps being told. The truth is you can not buy a gun online and have it shipped to you ! It must be shipped to a FFL dealer and you must go to that dealer and fill out the forms and go thru a federal background check before you can take the gun. As a gun dealer I know the truth!

I see no reason to own an AR-15 but I see no reason to own a car that goes faster than 75 mph or goes from zero to sixty in six seconds. There are countless things that we own that we don't need to own but we simply like to own them. What's the problem? I don't see how anybody can exist without a milling machine, various types of welders, a lathe etc. The issue is not AR-15s. Far more people get killed with body parts. We keep on getting sidetracked from the real issue. Why are the acts attractive and what is causing people to go out and kill the defenseless innocent? Those issues are what we should focus on, not inanimate objects.

The answer seems so obvious that it is difficult to believe anyone with any common sense would believe otherwise. That leads me to believe that the mad rush to enact more restrictive firearms laws is nothing more than fulfilling an agenda that has been on the liberal back burner for a few years. It's a shameful thing to do; to use the deaths of innocent children to further an agenda while passing it off as something else entirely.

About a week after the Newtown tragedy, I was going thru the drive-thru at the Dairy Queen in Cromwell.

I noticed before they pulled away the driver of the car in front of me handed the girl working the window something but I didn't think anything of it. When I got to the window the girl told me the car in front of me paid for my order and told the girl to give me this folded piece of paper. When I opened it, it read "You are my 17th act of kindness in honor of the 26 killed in Newtown...."

I was so touched and stunned. I do think its sad that it takes such a tragedy to encourage people to be kind.